Personally I don't think having a dew claw is a so bad. In all my years of having dogs I have never had an issue. I do remove all my puppies dews at 4 days old but I do have some adults with both dew claws and they are fine. They never catch and I trim them like a regular nail
No problems at all. I would never take one in to have it removed, It would be like removing a finger. I think they are fine with it.
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